AI Now Writes VentureBeat News Articles Using Bing Chat: Is It Accurate?

VentureBeat, a leading tech news outlet, is now using AI-powered technology, Bing Chat, to write some of its news articles as it dips its toes into the revolutionary technology.

The technology-focused publication is the latest media outfit to use an AI language model to produce news stories. CNET has recently dabbled in AI news writing, as well as BuzzFeed, which recently shut down its entire newsroom altogether.

Bing Chat AI — Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Modern Life, Search, and Devices speaks during an event introducing a new AI-powered Microsoft Bing and Edge at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington on February 7, 2023. - Microsoft's long-struggling Bing search engine will integrate the powerful capabilities of language-based artificial intelligence, CEO Satya Nadella said, declaring what he called a new era for online search. JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images

VentureBeat Now Uses AI to Write News

According to Engadget, VentureBeat is now using AI-powered Bing Chat by Microsoft to help their editorial team write some news stories. On top of that, they also employ new technology to edit their articles before publishing.

No less than the editorial director of VentureBeat, Michael Nuñez admitted that they have started using Bing Chat to help them write their stories. He explains to Bloomberg that an AI-powered tool speeds up their process, adding that the new technology summarizes articles in merely seconds. On the other hand, a human reporter could take strikingly longer, spending hours to do so.

The VentureBeat editorial director considers AI usage in writing news stories as if they hired another person or team to their workforce. He now encourages writers to infuse a few fragments and sentences solely generated by Bing Chat.

Nuñez predicts that using AI to write news articles will be entirely normal in two years. But it would still be a heated discussion in the first six months. Eventually, he believed it would be part of our day-to-day lives and no longer matter.

Microsoft Bing Chat AI — Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Modern Life, Search, and Devices, speaks during a keynote address announcing ChatGPT integration for Bing at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington, on February 7, 2023. - Microsoft's long-struggling Bing search engine will integrate the powerful capabilities of language-based artificial intelligence, CEO Satya Nadella said, declaring what he called a new era for online search. JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images

Other Media Outlets Use AI for News Writing

Besides VentureBeat, other news outlets have started embracing the new technology amid the staggering popularity of generative AI services like ChatGPT and Google Bard. However, it turns out that some publications have been using such methods even before AI chatbots hit the mainstream earlier this year.

The Next Web notes that the long-running non-profit news agency, the Associated Press (AP), started diving into AI tech as early as 2014.

Back then, AP started using the technology to publish a brief digest of earnings reports of various companies. This usually takes time to summarize as it involves tons of information and figures. Since then, the publication has written roughly 3,000 stories, covering various earnings reports every quarter.

More recently, CNET has quietly started adopting a new process for writing its tech stories. The Verge reports that the tech news outlet only tried using AI to write articles as a mere experiment, admitting that more than half of these stories needed corrections. BuzzFeed also started curating AI-generation content and quizzes in partnership with OpenAI.

The latest of them all is VentureBeat, which now uses AI to help them write and edit stories.